Sorry this week’s is so late. Alex had his end done promptly, but I took a week’s vacation out of province and let it too long to catch up upon my return. The tardiness is entirely my fault.
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| 17 Again | |||||||||
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| Adventures of Antoine Doinel (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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| Comments | Includes The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run. | ||||||||
| Arsenic and Old Lace | |||||||||
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| Barry Lyndon | |||||||||
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| Battle Beyond the Stars | |||||||||
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| Black Tea | |||||||||
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| Blade: Trinity | |||||||||
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| Capote | |||||||||
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| Crumb Catcher (Arrow) | |||||||||
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| Dark Nuns | |||||||||
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| Dark Victory | |||||||||
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| Empire State of the Dead | |||||||||
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| Exclusive | |||||||||
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| First Love | |||||||||
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| Frailty | |||||||||
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| Fury | |||||||||
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| Gigi | |||||||||
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| Comments | Winner of Best Picture for 1958 | ||||||||
| Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug | |||||||||
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| How to Train Your Dragon (2025) | |||||||||
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| Hugo | |||||||||
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| Kung Fu Masters Zodiac Way: Copy Cat | |||||||||
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| LEGO DC Super Heroes: Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis | |||||||||
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| Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring | |||||||||
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| Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | |||||||||
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| Lou | |||||||||
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| M3GAN 2.0 | |||||||||
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| Manifest | |||||||||
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| Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester | |||||||||
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| Mountainhead | |||||||||
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| Naruto Shippuden | |||||||||
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| Nature: Hummingbirds of Hollywood | |||||||||
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| Nova: Secrets of the Forest | |||||||||
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| Pecker | |||||||||
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| Presumed Innocent / Frantic | |||||||||
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| Protos Experiment | |||||||||
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| Robocop 2 | |||||||||
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| Rock Star | |||||||||
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| Sands of the Kalahari (Kino Lorber) | |||||||||
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| Shane (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
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| Sidekicks | |||||||||
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| Sinners | |||||||||
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| Snakes on a Plane | |||||||||
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| Something Borrowed | |||||||||
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| Specialist | |||||||||
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| Stop! Look! and Laugh! | |||||||||
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| Tammy and the T-Rex | |||||||||
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| Comments | Blaine: In a major “before they were stars” type of movie, Paul Walker’s character has his brain implanted in an animatronic T-Rex by Terry Kiser’s character, but that’s enough to finally get the attention of Denise Richards’ character. The “unrated” part refers to the gore. | ||||||||
| Town | |||||||||
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| Troy | |||||||||
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| Veil | |||||||||
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| Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection | |||||||||
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| Comments | All of the shorts, but not Curse of the Were-Rabbit, it seems. | ||||||||
| Westland | |||||||||
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| White Hunter, Black Heart | |||||||||
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| Comments | Starring Clint Eastwood | ||||||||
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |||||||||
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| Wild Bunch | |||||||||
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| Wisher Maddox | |||||||||
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| Wonder Woman | |||||||||
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| Comments | The original animated film where the title character is voiced by Keri Russell, not the live action movie with Gal Gadot. | ||||||||
| World God Only Knows | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My 4K Pick of the week is Shane, with Battle Beyond the Stars running a close second. World God Only Knows is a decent rom-com anime that works (somewhat by default) as an anime pick of the week.” Blaine says, “I’ve always had a soft spot for Arsenic and Old Lace, which is a great comedy for the Halloween season, even if Cary Grant was never happy with how campy his performance is. (It should be noted that he played campy only because he was directed to do so.)”
Barry Lyndon I think I talked about last week? TL;DR: Very good but I’m never watching it again.
I remember seeing Battle Beyond the Stars in my local tiny movie theatre when I was a kid. Nowadays I know it’s barely a B-movie but at the time me and my friends loved it. I do think I’ve seen it since then but honestly I’m kind of curious about this release — it’s remastered in 4K and has a ton of extra/special features. I might actually pick it up.
Last week’s Barry Lyndon release was 4K Ultra HD. This week’s is a new pressing of an existing release on DVD.
If you’re into WW2 flicks, don’t miss Fury. It’s pretty graphic, but it feels real. The five guys in the tank really crank it up to 11. It’s probably the best performance turned in by Shia Labeouf (who plays a Bible-quoting tank gunner).
You won’t have that heroic, uplift that you got from Saving Private Ryan. More like, “War is absolute Hell and we should probably rethink it”.